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FM 'confident' of GST passage in monsoon session
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SME Times News Bureau | 17 May, 2016
Union Finance Minister Arun
Jaitley on Monday said he was “reasonably confident” of the passage of
the Goods and Services Tax Bill in the monsoon session of parliament.
“I
am reasonably confident because every political party, excluding the
Congress party, favours the GST,” Jaitley said in a press interaction at
the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC) here.
Jaitley had earlier
stated that if the Congress does not agree to support the GST, the
government may seek its passage by vote in the parliament's next
session.
Asked if the government will manage enough numbers in
the Rajya Sabha to favour the GST, Jaitley said all regional parties
that are allies of the Congress are supportive of GST.
“Each one
of the UPA partners, from the DMK to the NCP, is making strong noises in
support. If you take the broad headcount, I am reasonably confident
that when it comes to the crunch, it will be difficult for the Congress
to take a contrarian view,” Jaitley said.
“All regional parties, except AIADMK...We can speak to them...have a strong interest in the Bill,” he added.
Jaitley
said he has spoken to all the chief ministers and even Congress-ruled
states are supporting the GST, which seeks to simplify indirect taxation
system by clubbing different taxes.
The finance minister also
said that barring the 1 percent additional tax proposed on inter-state
sales, the bill is the same as had been introduced by the United
Progressive Alliance (UPA).
“Except for the 1 percent additional
tax that was done to mollify the manufacturing states, that I have
already said we are open about....The rest of the GST bill is verbatum
-- the same, what the UPA had introduced. And therefore one has to
analyse these afterthoughts,” he said.
“In fact, Congress should
have had the vision to support the bill because then they could have
claimed the original authorship of the idea,” he added.
The GST
Bill that has long been delayed stands approved by the parliamentary
standing committee. The Rajya Sabha select committee has approved the
bill, barring the 1 percent additional tax.
“We will ask Rajya Sabha to discuss it and then take a view on it,” Jaitley said.
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